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Tuesday, July 17, 2012

17 July - Wired

English: EUVL tool, that deposits virtually defect-free, ultra-thin films on integrated circuits. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - MARCH 20: Artwork is projected onto the Sydney Opera House during the finale of the YouTube Symphony Orchestra on March 20, 2011 in Sydney, Australia. Musicians from over thirty countries were selected to perform as part of the YouTube Symphony Orchestra after submitting a video audition to YouTube that was voted on by the public. The amatuer and professional participants, ranging from age 14 to age 49, were flown to Sydney for one week to particpate in free public concerts and a sold-out finale performance at the Sydney Opera House. The entire performance was projected on the iconic Opera House sails and streamed live online via Youtube. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)FOREST CITY, NC - APRIL 19: An employee walks past servers in one of four server rooms at the new Facebook Data Center on April 19, 2012 in Forest City, North Carolina. The company began construction on the facility in November 2010 and went live today, serving the 845 million Facebook users worldwide. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)ARIZONA BORDERS AND CITIZEN SAFETY... (Photo credit: roberthuffstutter)English: An aerial view of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Syrian Rebels Use YouTube, Facebook for Weapons Trainingopen original article

Rebels fighting against Bashar Assad in Syria's civil war are outgunned, outmanned and largely aren't professional soldiers. So they're turning to social media for tutorials in how to use their weapons.

We're still waiting for Google's Data Center Navy. But Dell is doing its best to feed the Data Center Air Force. On Tuesday, the Texas computing giant took the wraps off what it calls the Dell Tactical Mobile Data Center -- a kind of data-center-in-a-box that's specifically designed for military outfits looking to air-lift temporary computing power into emergency situations.

Mahdi, a new piece of spyware found targeting more than 800 victims in Iran and elsewhere, has been stealing documents and recording conversations since last December.Who knew that when the Messiah arrived to herald the Day of Judgment he'd first root through computers to steal documents and record conversations?

As much as Facebook is a part of people's day-to-day lives, a lot of people don't actually like using the social network giant. Google+ on the other hand is getting a warm reception in comparison, according to a new ACSI report.

If you were to tick off the ideal leader for Yahoo, you?d wind up with a description that sounds a lot like Marissa Mayer: Highly technical, product-oriented, as Internet-savvy as anyone in the world, and charismatic enough to energize followers.

In 2008, a small team of coders inside the National Security Agency started reverse-engineering the database that ran Google. They closely followed the Google research paper describing BigTable -- the sweeping database that underpinned many of the Google's online services, running across tens of thousands of computer servers -- but they also went a little further. In rebuilding this massive database, they beefed up the security. After all, this was the NSA.

On Wednesday, the Navy will sail its eco-friendly "Great Green Fleet" for the first time -- and maybe the last. The Navy has screwed up its once-promising biofuel plan with a blend of bad politics and questionable analysis, alienating Congress and Pentagon insiders alike. And that's before they get socked with a $1.8 billion annual bill for all that green fuel.

America's newest comics publisher has a $200-billion-a-year budget, more than a million employees and just one title in its catalog. At Comic-Con International, the U.S. Army -- yes, that U.S. Army -- announced the release Friday of America's Army No. 1, a partially animated digital comic for the iPad and Android tablets.

On July 4, onlookers in Atlantic City watched with awe as Boardwalk Hall cracked, shuddered, then crumbled to the ground. Then, somehow, the hall erupted in rainbow-colored bricks that appeared to move. It was all an illusion! The historic building remained intact.

Ignore its proximity to the border, and the Texas fracking boom is like many others around America. Trucks hauling construction supplies barrel down country highways. Boom towns, sprawling networks of new private roads and hundreds of drilling sites have popped up. But the boom for Texas tea -- oil and gas, that is -- has inadvertently torn a giant hole in the Border Patrol's defenses.

Panda, which says it was the first to deliver antivirus from the cloud (in 2009), on Monday released Panda Cloud Antivirus 2.0, which its says adds a news disinfection engine, a "community-based firewall", and 50% faster scans. Panda's free cloud-based antivirus has offered what it calls Collective Intelligence technology (see video on how it works), ...

Five top multinational oil companies have been targeted by members of Anonymous, who published about 1,000 email credentials taken from accounts belonging to the companies, as well as hashed and unencrypted passwords.

What's worse than a power-mad dictator with weapons of mass destruction? A power-mad dictator who may be about to lose them. This is the situation the world may soon be forced to face in Syria as the Assad regime begins to crack. It is a potential nightmare that ultimately might lead to the use and proliferation of WMD across the region. Geoengineering Could Backfire, Make Climate Change Worseopen original article

Deploying giant space mirrors and spraying particles from stadium-sized balloons may sound like an engineer's wild fantasy, but climate models suggest that the potential of geoengineering to offset rising atmospheric carbon dioxide may be significantly overstated.

When a solar flare erupted yesterday, scattering a billion atomic bombs' worth of energy into space, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory was staring at the sun. They recorded this video, which NASA released Friday morning.

Matt Damon found himself covered in "fecal matter" while filming Elysium's action scenes at the world's second-largest garbage dump in Mexico City, but he's not complaining. The actor simply wanted to satisfy the in-your-face realism demanded by sci-fi auteur Neill Blomkamp. Can a $10 Robot Save African Education?open original article

Ten dollars doesn't get you a lot of parts. Then again, $35 for a computer seemed pretty outrageous not too long ago. The success of that Raspberry Pi Micro-Computer prompted professors Ken Goldberg and Ayorkor Korsah to stage a contest: Design a $10 robot. Conceived as a teaching tool for use in African classrooms, such a low-cost machine could prove to be revolutionary for education in poorer countries around the world.

Anonymous has launched its own version of WikiLeaks. It's looking to rely less on the secret-spilling site and to actually get people to make sense of the gigabytes of data Anonymous dumps on the world. But that's easier said than done.

Satellites use solar energy to power their electronics, but they rely on gas to maintain orbit or change position. Once tapped out, dead satellites become space junk, which threatens new orbital ventures. To prevent this, NASA is testing the feasibility of using robots to fuel and repair satellites on the fly or tow them to a new job site.

Downtown Calgary, Alberta, is going into its second day without complete use of government services, after some sort of explosion knocked out internet service provider Shaw Communications and a host of other nearby businesses.

You can learn a lot about what's going on inside a cat's mind by paying attention to its ear movements. If kitty is angry or tired, her ears may tilt away from her face or droop. And if your cat is on high alert, her ears will stick straight up in the air like twin sentinels. These telling ear movements inspire Necomimi's Brainwave Controlled Cat Ears, an impossibly cute headset that theoretically puts all your mind's machinations on display

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